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Means of Self-Realization Elsewhere he has, however, made it clear that the few * things which may be necessary for a monk to observe . his vows (mahā vratas) do not constitute parigraha,
because the enlightened have said that attachment 1 (mūrcchā) is parigraha and not the articles. 99 He further
says that, those who have digested philosohy have no i attachment even for their own body, they are always
aware that the body is not their's.100 He further says that as attachment for ārambha and parigraha diminishes, the pride or ego about them too diminishes and the aspiration for self-realization becomes more intense. 101
Of course, the ego and pride acquired from infinite time does not vanish so quickly. To get rid of them totally, one has to abandon all possessions, to which one is very much attached and with which one has identified oneself. That is the way to be free from attachment and increase one's urge for the goal. He advises a sādhaka to minimise ārambha and parigraha, so that the impact of undesirable and inauspicious incidents and events also diminishes and this is so because the impact of inauspicious association is diminished by the association of the auspicious (satsariga). And those aspirants who desire benefit of auspicious or pious association and pious scriptures.
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